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Updated on September 11, 2016 at 11:26 AMPosted on September 11, 2016 at 11:25 AM

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Long snappers Carson Tinker of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Josh Harris of the Atlanta Falcons chat before an NFL preseason game on Sept. 1, 2016, in Atlanta. Tinker played at Alabama, and Harris played at Auburn.
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But when Tinker appeared as the game-week guest for "Players Only," a video segment hosted by Marks for Jacksonville's official team web site, they didn't bring up the Iron Bowl rivalry. Instead, Marks talked to Tinker about being a team captain, the inside game of missed kicks and the Jaguars' locker room.

The Jaguars kick off their 2016 season on Sunday when they host the Green Bay Packers. Earlier this week, Tinker was elected as Jacksonville's special-teams captain for the 2016 season.

"This is my first time being a captain in anything," Tinker told Marks. "It's an honor, dude. It really is. It's one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me."

Marks revealed that Tinker's locker is in "the Hood," the defensive linemen's area of the locker room.

"I love coming to work every day and making fun of ya'll and ya'll making fun of me," Tinker said. "... I feel like the D-line is the last old part of the NFL left."

For aficionados of kicking, Tinker said it isn't always the kicker's fault when the ball doesn't go through the uprights. Revealing some of the intricacies of the kicking game, Tinker said for the holder to get the laces out, Tinker needs to know that the football will rotate 3.5 times during his snap.

Tinker is entering his fourth season as the Jaguars' long snapper. Marks, a prep standout at Vigor in Prichard, also is entering his fourth season with Jacksonville, but he played four seasons with the Tennessee Titans before coming to the Jaguars.

Marks likely will be in a different role this season as part of the Jaguars' defensive-line rotation instead of Jacksonville's top defensive player.

Marks suffered a knee injury in the final game of the 2014 season that delayed the start of his 2015 campaign. When he got back on the field, he suffered a torn triceps and played in only four games last season. In March, Jacksonville signed Malik Jackson from the Denver Broncos, and the top free agent available in the offseason plays the same position as Marks.

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